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WEATHER FAIR AND COLDER TONIGHT JVuOiiDIillf 8 on (Full reports back nm) (itajf dirt mw rljiiMilJrpoi Red Streak Final (Closing Prices Net Changes) IN TONIGHT'S GLOBE CopyrIht. 1946. by th Globs Newspaper Co.) B. U. 6.

Pat. Off. volcxux TUESDAY, JAN. 29, 1946 30 PAGES THREE CENTS She was first observed In Philadelphia last night when she went to the 30th-st. Station of the Penn Railroad and said Sally Continued on Page IS Coast with a man who had her." the Lydon girl said no man accompanied her.

When taken into custody, the girl was wearing a tan riding outfit, coat, waist and jodhpurs. av had been searching for her in New York's Greenwich Village. Told of stories from Boston that a friend. Marjorie L. Mears.

had told police she had left for New York and the West "the Women's Home of Detention to await the arrival of her father. The girl told Philadelphia police she was "thumbing my way to Her father. Jo-, seph M. Lydon, 159 East Elm After battling with detectives and police, Sally Ann Lydon of Wollaston, 20, Cambridge Jun ior College student who has been missing since Friday, was taken in custody by Philadelphia police today, and placed in Radio ..21 Serial .11 Society .......21 Sports ........24 Theatres ......20 War 14 Women's .....23 4. 5 Comics ..22 Cross-Word ...21 Deaths ..27 Editorial .....18 24.

25 Gangplank. ...13 British Movie Actress, Bride of Winchester Captain 1 -HB LTD 4" fJ 1 1 4 'J NEW YORK, Jan. 29 (UP) Harry Hopkins, who was the confidant of Presidents, Prime Ministers and Dictators throughout the world, but never lost his touch with the common man, died today in Memorial Hospital. ft i. 1 (Exclusive pnotos from European Picture Service) IN HER NEW PARIS HAT Carol Raye, British, film star bride of Capt Clark Spencer of Winchester.

r7 V. tor in the depression of the 1930's. Like Mr. Roosevelt, he fought constantly for the underdog. He came from humble beginnings, but through his missions for the President to numerous foreign countries he became a figure as well known abroad as at home.

Hopkins Continued on Page 5 last July to "take a rest." He returned later, however, to become a special adviser to President Truman. Dr. Rhoads said the nature of Hopkins' illness could not be determined "until further facts are available." There was no 'immediate announcement as to whether an autopsy would be performed. The Memorial Hospital specializes in cancer cases. Funeral arrangements were to be announced later, Hopkins, frail son of an Iowa harness maker, was a social worker in his earlier years.

He became a power in national and international affairs as an assistant to President Roosevelt. He will also be remembered by the nation, which for a time was the world's biggest employer, as relief administra Hopkins, plagued by ill health since 1938, was 55 years old. He has been under treatment here for the last 11 weeks, but Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads, director of the hospital, said the nature-of his ailment was "obscure," The man who was constantly at the side of the late President Tranklin D.

Roosevelt during his more than three terms resigned his job HOPKINS AND F. D. R. in 1939 Then Secretary of Cora- merce, Harry Hopkins is pictured above with the late President Roosevelt at a roadside press conference at Warm Springs, Ga. Miss Carol Raye, 23-year-old British star of films and musical comedy, will soon come to Boston the bride of Capt Clark Spencer, prominent Winchester and Marblehead sportsman, the Globe learned today.

While 600 British brides and their children are sailing to America on board the Argentina, the favorite of the many British film audiences is trying to negotiate overseas passage to Boston to rejoin her husband, already on the way- to the United States. Miss Raye is currently "acting as the star of the first British musical technicolor film, now being screened, "Song of Ro-. mance." As soon as her engagements on set are completed, not later than early Summer, she hopes to come to' America for a J'shorCrtsit her husband's home. 1 Spencer Continued on Page 30 Report G. E.

Agrees to 181-Cents Wage Increase Men Foiled in Attempted $5000 Somerville Robbery 6-State Search for Weymouth Missing Mother WEYMOUTH, Jan. 29 A search which has reached six-state porpor-tions was intensified today as New England police worked swiftly toward some clew to the disappear Norton Investigating Arrest of Roxbury Truant's Mother 1 1 -s I "5 G.M. and Union Agree to Meet With Mediator DETROIT, Jan, 29 (UP) General Motors Corporation and the United Automobile Workers Union (C I. CO agreed today to meet with Federal labor mediator in an effort end the 70-day-rld strike of 175,000 G. M.

production ance of Mrs. Betty Reader, 25-year-old mother of three children, who excitedly phoned a neighbor last evening and said she was being taken out of the state. The phone call, according to Weymouth police, was received by Mrs. George L. Ladd, who said Mrs.

Reader hysterically cried: "I am being taken out of the By EDWIN A. LAHEY Exclusive to tne Ciobe WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 9 (CDN) General Electric Company has agreed to an 18i-cent wage increase for its striking C. I. O.

workers, it was reported today in authoritative circles. The ofTcr, it "was said, had been made to government mediators in the electrical strike, following a meeting of the executive officers of the company in New York yesterday. An 18'i-cent offer would end the strike in General Electric and speed the solution of the national wage crisis, which is cracking up all over the country. Strikes Continued on Page 17 ton. The chairman said that he would attend a conference on the case at School committee headquarters at 3:30 this afternoon, and would see that all the iacts were presented correctly.

The widow's arrest took place at 6 a. m. last Thursday, when police went to her home and took her to the Dudley-st. station. She was held at the station for several hours before being taken to the Roxbury District Court to face a complaint of violation of the school law specifically "failing to cause the attendance of a child at school." A warrant had been issued on complaint by district attendance officer Hyman Davis.

The court case was continued' to Boston School committee chairman Clement A. Norton today declared that he would press action gainst School Department personnel responsible for having a 55-year-old Roxbury widow arrested because of the truancy of one of her eight childorn. "This is the case of a bright boy of 14, whoe mother had to work to support her family and could not personally make sure that he went to school every day," Norton said. "We have set up facilities for handling these cases," he declared. "The matter should have been referred to the Bureau of Child Accounting and Iteps taken to save the boy.

Instead the case was taken to court and the boy's mother was needlessly humiliated when she was arrested." There is an attempt among School Department employees to "cover up" in this case, according to Nor- 1 m. t.r v. -6 )HV' Confirmed on 17 vt -4 state! Call police!" Weymouth- Continued on Page 3 New York Group Dickers for Hanlon's Suffolk Downs Stock Mil "i June 29, with the provision that Reports earlier today that Judge Samuel Rosenman of New York, close advisor of President Rooser velt and until a few. days: ago an advisor of President Truman, was among a group of New Yorkers who purchased Suffolk Downs are unfounded, receivers for the track announced this afternoon. Judge Rosenman was not included among the New Yorkers engaged she keep her son v.

-Norton" Continued on Page 17 Will Raise Car Believed in Quincy Quarry QUINCY, Jan. 29. Evidence that an auto had plunged into Fallon's quarry, off Quarry st, some time during the night was found by two Quincy police officers, John Bryan and Bruno Guidici, who "were patrolling the area early this morning. Auto Continued on Page 6 I in negotiations with 'the receivers. sail sap 5 PROOF jii .1 if wTf1tfSSrTirrJt Pith "nrt'ii ftiiiwar- m- Edward O.

Proctor and Edward F. Good, who are liquidating present Suffolk (Continued on Page ihoait ii TtatLilMHamio anf ami iTr1 XI SIX OF THE TEN GIRLS threatened by gunmen in attempted holdup of bakery in Somerville. Left to Right, Front Grace McCann and Elsie Ross. Rear Catharine Mer-curio, Gertrude Butler, Claire McCarthy, Rita Crawford. Admits Phone Calls, Links Pair to Degnan Case CHICAGO.

Jan. 29 (UP) A former Reformatory inmate gave police today the names of two men who. he claimed, kidnaped 6-year-old Suzanne Degnan. Police were skeptical, but said they were overlooking no possibility which might lead to solution of the kidnaping-slaying of the blonde child Jan. 7.

The statement naming the two men as the abductors was given to police by Theouore Campbell. 22. Police commissioner John Prender-past. who took part in nine hours of questioning Campbell, said he was inclined to doubt the story. Degnan Continued on Page 19 Vessel WithTroops Fast on Fire Island NEW YORK.

Jan. 29 (AP The merchant ship Stephen F. Austin, en route from Liverpool to New York with 101 troops aboard, went hard -Three nervous holdup men. two of them armed with revolvers, turned and fled from the office of To Hear CurleyV Motion for New Trial Friday WASHINGTON. Jan.

29 fAP The new trial motion of Representative James M. Curlcy, of Massachusetts. 71-year-old Mayor were told that the $5000' payroll they sought had not yet arrived. Somerville police said that the trio, all described as about 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing about 160 pounds each, drove up to the bakeshop office entrance on Foley road, just off Middlesex in a black sedan. Holdup eConf inucd on Page 6 the First National Stores bake shop, 5 Middlesex shortly after 1 o'clock this afternoon when they of Boston, and two others convicted with him on charges of fraud will be heard next Friday in United N.

E. Colleges Join Navy States District Court here. Curley, Donald Wakefield Smith, I rormer memDer oi tne xsauonai La to Build "Atom-Age" Fleet bor Relations Board from Pittsburgh and Washington, and James G. Ful LOW CALORIE DRESSING FOR SALADS By LOUIS M. LYONS ler, who is serving a five-year sentence at Atlanta Penitentiary for Hriilxwi- fraud, have appealed for the new trial on the ground the jury-ver aground early today on Fire Island.

60 miles east of New York city, the dict reached 10 days ago involved eight legal points that should have Navy Air Sea Rescue reported. a si been omitted. Curley The ship apparently was in no immediate danger, the Navy said. Through the Navy, the Federal Government will give postwar support to scientific research in New England colleges and industrial laboratories that contributed so much towinning the war. Basij research in six major lines will be supported at Harvard.

Yale, M. I. T. and Tufts. These are among 44 colleges in the United States with which Navy contracts have been signed or are- being negotiated to Continued on Page 3 OVER 500 MILLION POUNDS OF FATS Fresh Buying Boosts Prices By FRANK J.

FLYNN Following two or three hours of a mixed price situation on the New York Stock Exchange, a fresh buying wave developed and prices started up in rather brisk fashion, many issues topping their best prices of yestcrdey and leaving the market generally in a strong closing. Market Continued on Page 25 Orson Adams to Meet Sudbury Townspeople SUDBURY, Jan. 29 A public hearing has been scheduled for 8 p. rn. Thursday to discuss the problems raised in the town should UNO choose to establish its permanent site in this area.

Sudbury Continued on Page 4 insure adequate continuance of basic scientific work which may at any time become essential to national defence. Five Boston industrial concerns will also carry on research under Navy contracts, according to Rear Adm Harold R. Bowen, chief of the Navy's Oflice of Research and Inventions. Under the Navy research contracts, much expensive laboratory equipment, installed for war-time research, wil remain at the local universities and become available for basic science studies. Much of this equipment has been beyond the budget of colleges to secure in Navy (Continued on Page 6 Quality since 1840 I rr? AND GREASE WERE COLLECTED The situation is still critical.

Many million more pounds are needed in this reconversion period. Women, keep it up, save every pound of Fats and Grease you can. Pa stene 500 Million Pounds During the Period 1942-1945 SUPERIOR Globe Advertisers can help the newsprint situation by arranging ior their Adver-' tisements in the Globe as far in advance oi date of publication as is possible. MISSION CREAM SHERRY Advertisements may be ordered at the Globe office or by telephone. Call LAFayette 2000.

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